UKPASS

Code:

P041450

Course

Length:

1 Year Full-Time, 2 Years Part-Time

Start Dates: September 2017, September 2018

Department: Department of English, History and

Creative Writing

Location: Edge Hill University

• Combine the study of literature with modern andcontemporary culture and history;

• Benefit from a distinct interdisciplinary curriculum;

• Study a combination of subjects which are notcommonly available within a single MA;

• Study a programme taught by a supportive team ofspecialist tutors with interests in literature, popularculture, genre studies, modern history, print cultureand gender studies.

The MA in English covers literature and popular culture intheir historical contexts from the sixteenth century to thepresent day, with a focus on literature post-1800. Itprovides you with the opportunity to undertake acomparative study of literature, history and popularculture and develop research skills and methodologies.The programme will appeal if you are interested incombining the study of ‘serious’ literature with popularwriting, women’s literature, and topics such as Empire,American national identity, the Victorian period,Holocaust and Second World War, approached asinterdisciplinary case studies from the perspective of

MA English

International Students Can Apply

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literature, history, popular culture and print culture. Thecourse enables you to work across subject boundaries

and provides excellent preparation if you wish to pursue aPhD in the future.

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Course in Depth

What will I study?

The programme consists of two compulsory modules (20credits each), four optional modules (20 credits each) anda compulsory dissertation (60 credits). You will be guidedto a combination of optional modules focusingon literature and popular culture, or a combination ofliterature modules and modules on a historical topic ortheme.

If you are interested in literature, the available optionscover texts from the sixteenth century to the present day,with a predominant focus on literature post-1880.Themes include gender, popular culture, 'transgressive'women’s writing, masculinity, print culture, humour, thegothic, and various theoretical and critical perspectives.

History-related modules focus on themes from the lastthree centuries, including topics such as Empire, theHolocaust and the Second World War, approached asinterdisciplinary case studies involving the study ofhistory, literature and culture (especially popular culture).

How will I study?

You will learn through a combination of lectures,seminars, tutorials and guided independent learning.Taught sessions take place between 6pm-9pmon weekday evenings. If you are studying full-time youwill attend two evenings per week and if you are studyingpart-time you will attend one evening per week.

How will I be assessed?

You will be assessed through a combination ofassignments which, depending on the modules youchoose, may include essays, critical reviews, criticaldiaries, presentations and research-based projects, and adissertation.

Who will be teaching me?

You will be taught by a team of specialist tutors who areactive researchers and committed teachers with interestsin literature, popular culture, genre studies, modernhistory, women’s studies, history and print culture.

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Modules

HUM4000: Critical Approaches to PCritical Approaches to Postgrostgraduate Study in the Humanities and Social Sciencesaduate Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (20credits)Critical Approaches to PCritical Approaches to Postgrostgraduate Study in the Humanities and Social Sciencesaduate Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences introduces you to shared conceptsand themes in studying language, literature, history, film and culture. The module will place these themes and conceptsin a historical context, introduce you to relevant issues concerning them, and enable you to understand the variety ofapproaches and perspectives which could be employed. You will be encouraged to recognise and explore the socialrelevance of these approaches and perspectives. The module will also introduce you to the wider significance of taughtpostgraduate study in the humanities and social sciences through personal development planning.

HUM4002: Research Philosophies and MethodologiesResearch Philosophies and Methodologies (20 credits)Research Philosophies and MethodologiesResearch Philosophies and Methodologies introduces you to the importance of research for advanced study. Themodule examines the different ways in which the concept of research can be understood in relation to the humanitiesand social sciences; the key concepts, themes and terms employed in literary, language, historical and culturalresearch; and what is meant by, and involved in, undertaking interdisciplinary research. You will be directed to keyresources such as libraries, archives and online databases. The module is underpinned by the aim of providing guidancein organising, structuring and managing research as well as carefully honing analytical skills which enable assessmentof the relevance and value of primary materials.

HUM4100: DissertationDissertation (60 credits)DissertationDissertation provides you with the opportunity to undertake in-depth and extended study within a chosen specificarea of English studies. Through consultation with an appropriate supervisor (or team of supervisors), the module willenable you to develop a detailed and sustained line of analysis that is personal to your research interests. Developingboth oral and written skills, the module will foster guided independent inquiry that will culminate in a dissertationproject.

You will select four of the following modules. Please note, approximately half of the pool of elective modules is likely tobe available for selection in a typical academic year.

The modules provisionally being offered for the following academic year are typically determined in the Spring prior toa September intake. If you wish to enquire whether particular modules will be available in a specific academic year,please contact the programme leader.

HUM4015: The Victorian City: Image and RealityThe Victorian City: Image and Reality (20 credits)The Victorian City: Image and RealityThe Victorian City: Image and Reality investigates and analyses the image and reality of the Victorian city inEngland. As a result of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation, urban centres became a source not only of interest butof fascination and anxiety in the nineteenth century. This engagement was vividly demonstrated in social accounts,journalism and popular fiction, particularly slum, detective and gothic fiction, through which social concerns aboutsurveillance and safety were played out. The module brings together a range of historical, journalistic and literarydocuments from the period to facilitate your critical engagement with constructions of the city in the nineteenthcentury.

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HUM4019: Re-making the Nation: Propaganda, Culture and Identity in the Second WRe-making the Nation: Propaganda, Culture and Identity in the Second World World Warar (20credits)Re-making the Nation: Propaganda, Culture and Identity in the Second WRe-making the Nation: Propaganda, Culture and Identity in the Second World World Warar explores the idea that Britishidentity was re-modelled as a consequence of the Second World War. The module will examine the idea that the needto mobilise the entire population for the war effort, and the incorporation of a wide range of forms of culturalproduction into the propaganda effort, had the effect of drastically altering notions of Britishness. In this respect, thewar might be seen as a transition between the more visibly hierarchical and economically laissez-faire 1930s, and theWelfare State of the post-war world.

HUM4030: Fictions of Class 1910-1965Fictions of Class 1910-1965 (20 credits)Fictions of Class 1910-1965Fictions of Class 1910-1965 studies British prose fiction written and/or published between the pre-first world warEdwardian age and the 'swinging sixties'. The major focus of the module is upon the construction of class identities inthese fictions, with particular attention to working-class identities and their relationship to middle and upper-classidentities. You will also study the profound transformations in the representations of working-class cultures andidentities in print/literary culture between the start and end of the period in history being studied.

HUM4032: Writing ContemporWriting Contemporary Wary Womenomen (20 credits)Writing ContemporWriting Contemporary Wary Womenomen focuses predominantly on female-authored literary texts drawn from the twentiethand twenty-first centuries. The module explores a variety of genres including poetry, drama and fictional andnon-fictional prose. It also theorises contemporary British women’s writing in terms of the work of feminist critical andcultural theorists, in particular those working from 1960 onwards. Contemporary women's writing is thereby sited inthe context of current critical and cultural feminist debate.

HUM4033: RhRhythm and Colour: Literythm and Colour: Literature, Jazz and Artature, Jazz and Art (20 credits)RhRhythm and Colour: Literythm and Colour: Literature, Jazz and Artature, Jazz and Art studies a range of American poetry and prose from the post-World War IIperiod as informed by their relationship to jazz music and emerging art forms. The module will study influences of jazzmusic on the work of poets such as the Beats, of art practice upon writers such as Frank O’Hara, and will feature artistssuch as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. No prior knowledge of music or art is required. The module will focus uponthe turn in American culture to abstraction, expression and freer literary forms.

HUM4034: LLoovve Actually? Le Actually? Loovve, Litere, Literature and Pature and Popular Cultureopular Culture (20 credits)LLoovve Actually? Le Actually? Loovve, Litere, Literature and Pature and Popular Cultureopular Culture explores representations of romantic and/ or sexual love in textswritten, or set, in Anglo-American culture from 1800 to now. The module synthesises high and low-brow primarysources, reading them in the context of key critical and cultural theorisations of love, bringing together narratives ofdesire in three key contexts: falling in love, staying in love, and love after love.

HUM4036: The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle in LiterThe Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle in Literature and Artature and Art (20 credits)The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle in LiterThe Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle in Literature and Artature and Art centres on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Formed in themid-nineteenth century, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were arguably the most controversial group of painters toemerge in Victorian Britain. They worked within an influential social and cultural network that included Ruskin,Tennyson and Swinburne. This module examines the relationship between the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, their workand its reception. You will consider the literary circles that both influenced and were influenced by them. You willalso explore a range of approaches to visual and literary production in the nineteenth century as well as its legacytoday.

HUM4038: TTeext Analysis in the Digital Humanitiesxt Analysis in the Digital Humanities (20 credits)TTeext Analysis in the Digital Humanitiesxt Analysis in the Digital Humanities draws on recent developments in the digital humanities to provide you withtools to analyse text and discourse in linguistic, literary, historical and political contexts. The module discusses the

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theoretical principles, concepts and constructs informing corpus approaches, critically examining the practical issuesof constructing and using language corpora in the analysis of text and discourse, You will receive training in usingcorpus tools, metrics and techniques.

HUM4039: Colonial to Global: NarrColonial to Global: Narrativatives of Imperialismes of Imperialism (20 credits)Colonial to Global: NarrColonial to Global: Narrativatives of Imperialismes of Imperialism examines the notion of old and new imperialisms by exploring fictionalnarratives from the colonial era, the postcolonial period and the contemporary period of globalisation. While suchnarratives are widely produced and disseminated imaginatively through literature and film, they also interact with and,indeed, are often reinforced by, archival material and the theoretical framings of imperial gestures. The moduleassesses a range of canonical and contemporary literary texts, supported by appropriate film screenings, in terms ofboth aesthetic value and of cultural and political dialogue.

HUM4040: Real Men, New Men and LReal Men, New Men and Loovver Men: Masculinities in Ter Men: Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Narrwentieth-Century Narrativativeses (20credits)Real Men, New Men and LReal Men, New Men and Loovver Men: Masculinities in Ter Men: Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Narrwentieth-Century Narrativativeses examines a range oftwentieth-century texts (literature, film, TV and theatre) that explore representations of masculinity and male identityin relationship to current gender theory. In order to provide you with an understanding of contemporary malesubjectivity, the module will focus on a variety of manifestations of masculinity, such as working-class masculinities,queer masculinities, the new man or the new lad. The module will trace these variable and diverse forms of masculinitywithin their historical and cultural contexts.

HUM4041: TTrransgressivansgressive We Womenomen (20 credits)TTrransgressivansgressive We Womenomen explores mediated representations of transgressive women, figures both historical and fictionalwho have flouted gender conventions, broken patriarchal rules and been subject to both vitriol and fear. It is apredominantly cultural study, drawing upon established concepts and contemporary research across the Humanities.Images, narratives and myths of dangerous and transgressive women are analysed and interrogated for their functionsin patriarchy and in feminism, both as spectacular objects and active subjects.

HUM4042: ReRevvenge in Theory and Prenge in Theory and Practiceactice (20 credits)ReRevvenge in Theory and Prenge in Theory and Practiceactice reflects on how our culture is saturated by stories of revenge, acts of violentretaliation, and those who commit them. This module gives you an opportunity to study major revenge texts in theirhistorical contexts and to develop theoretical and ideological perspectives for their interpretation. Our criticaldiscussions will trace a line of uneven development from ancient, through modern, to postmodern literature andculture, via key moments of disruption in the Renaissance and Romantic periods. We will include contemporarypopular genres as well as canonical literature. The assessment strategy allows you to specialise in any relevant text(s),themes, or sub-genres of your choice.

HUM4043: Neo-Neo-Victorian FictionVictorian Fiction (20 credits)Neo-Neo-Victorian FictionVictorian Fiction focuses on new Victorian, or neo-Victorian, fiction. A term coined by Dana Shiller in 1997,neo-Victorianism re-visions and re-imagines the Victorian past (1837-1901) through the matrix of contemporaryBritish culture. The module uncovers the ways in which neo-Victorian writing, in the hands of celebrated andcomparatively unknown British exponents alike, employs the strategies of intertextuality, past/present fusion and'writing back' to offer concurrent cultural comment on the past and the present.

HUM4044: Violence and the Idea of the Middle EastViolence and the Idea of the Middle East (20 credits)Violence and the Idea of the Middle EastViolence and the Idea of the Middle East explores the ideas that lay behind the invention of the Middle East after thedestruction of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, and how they led to a perpetual state of conflict betweenthe West and the region. The module will deal with key Orientalist figures such as T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, andFrancois Georges-Picot, and the Middle Eastern nationalist movements that emerged during the war. You will examine

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the first Arab uprisings against European domination in Iraq, Palestine, Egypt and Syria, and the Western politics ofcontrol that followed.

HUM4045: Existentialism and FExistentialism and French Literrench Literature, 1930-1960ature, 1930-1960 (20 credits)Existentialism and FExistentialism and French Literrench Literature, 1930-1960ature, 1930-1960 offers you an opportunity to study a range of literary texts whichexemplify and define the debates of the high watermark of French Existentialism from circa 1930-1960. The modulewill concentrate in particular on the study of the creative works - both fiction and drama - of the three mostwell-known and widely studied of the French existentialists, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus.You will examine how and with what degree of success they fictionalise/dramatise key existentialist concepts, themesand questions.

HUM4046: LiterLiterature and Laughterature and Laughter (20 credits)LiterLiterature and Laughterature and Laughter charts the development of comic literature in the long nineteenth century. Not oftenassociated with laughter or humour, the period was in fact rich in examples of comic poetry, drama, prose and printculture. The module explores a range of comic literature and periodical material in the context of criticalconsiderations related to humour, laughter and comic theory. It will therefore provide you with opportunities to studyhumour in its cultural, historical and social contexts and to theorise its literary manifestations.

HUM4047: Cultures of MemoryCultures of Memory (20 credits)Cultures of MemoryCultures of Memory explores the differing constructions of first-hand memory, second-generation postmemory, andcultural or collective memory in twentieth- and twenty-first-century narratives dealing with personal and/or collectivetrauma. The module reads memoirs, second-generation accounts, literary and artistic representations and historicalinterpretations within a theoretical framework informed by recent developments in memory theory. The moduleexplores how traumatic experiences of loss, grief, atrocity and destruction are conveyed through different types andgenres of representation, and how the act of remembering impacts on the identities of individuals, families andsocieties.

HUM4048: Print and the PPrint and the People, 1850-1900eople, 1850-1900 (20 credits)Print and the PPrint and the People, 1850-1900eople, 1850-1900 examines the explosion of popular periodicals aimed at an increasingly fragmentedmass reading public in the second half of the nineteenth century. The module enables you to study periodicals andprint culture in depth, making full use of digital resources. You will be equipped with skills and methodologies requiredin researching print culture through digital archives.

HUM4049: Gothic SpacesGothic Spaces (20 credits)Gothic SpacesGothic Spaces examines how some of the most significant recent developments in literary studies have beenstimulated by considerations of space, place, geography and landscape. Drawing upon this 'spatial turn', this moduleexplores the construction of different kinds of textual 'worlds' in gothic fiction. The module is designed to enable youto gain an advanced understanding of spatial theory and apply it to the study of literary texts. You will also gain acritical understanding of genre studies.

HUM4051: EvEverything is Awesome! Enlightenment to Perything is Awesome! Enlightenment to Post-Romantic Childrenost-Romantic Children's Cultures's Cultures (20 credits)EvEverything is Awesome! Enlightenment to Perything is Awesome! Enlightenment to Post-Romantic Childrenost-Romantic Children's Cultures's Cultures finds it context in how children'sliterature criticism, histories of childhood and sociological work on constructions of childhood have all boomed inrecent years. This has turned neglected areas of study - children, childhood, and literary and historical representationsof the child - into foundational foci of research, impacting on socioeconomic, cultural and pedagogical understandingsof children and childhood. This module will investigate ways of representing children and childhood from themid-eighteenth century to the present day, exploring developments in the conceptualisation of childhood and askingwhether children can be said to have a culture.

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Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modulesmay vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that theavailability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected bytimetabling requirements.

Timetables

You can expect to receive your timetable at enrolment. Please note that while we make every effort to ensure thattimetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day or evening of the week.

Disclaimer

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information, however our programmes aresubject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may necessitate alteration to, or the cancellationof, courses.

Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies, revisions to subject benchmarksstatements, to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right tomake variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Entry Criteria

Entry Requirements

To join this programme, a good first degree in a relevantsubject is normally required (2.2 or above). An interviewwill form part of the selection process.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Edge Hill University recognises learning gainedelsewhere, whether through academic credit andqualifications acquired from other relevant courses ofstudy or through recognition of an individual's

professional and employment experience (also referredto as 'experiential learning').

Previous learning that is recognised in this way may beused towards meeting the entry requirements for aprogramme and/or for exemption from part of aprogramme. It is your responsibility to make a claim forrecognition of prior learning. For guidance, please consultthe University's Recognition of Prior Learning Policy andcontact the faculty in which you are interested instudying.

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Career Prospects

What are my career prospects?

Graduates in the humanities with a higher degree findemployment in a wide variety of careers such as teaching,arts organisation and management, the heritage industry,publishing, advertising, journalism, libraries and learningcentres, and management/administration.

Alternatively, upon successful completion of theprogramme, you may wish to apply to progress onto aresearch degree such as an MPhil or PhD.

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Finance

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees for full-time study on this MA are:

• £4,860 for UK and EU students and £12,500 forinternational students enrolling on the programmein academic year 2017/18;

• £5,040 for UK and EU students and £12,750 forinternational students enrolling on the programmein academic year 2018/19.

Tuition fees for part-time study on this MA are:

• £27 per credit for UK and EU students enrolling onthe programme in academic year 2017/18, i.e. £540per 20 credit module.

• £28 per credit for UK and EU students enrolling onthe programme in academic year 2018/19, i.e. £560per 20 credit module.

180 credits are required to complete a Masters degree.

The University may administer a small inflationary rise inpart-time postgraduate tuition fees in subsequentacademic years as you progress through the course.

Financial Support

For comprehensive information about the financialsupport available to eligible UK and EU students joiningpostgraduate courses at Edge Hill University, togetherwith details of how to apply for potential funding, pleaseview our Money Matters guide for your intendedacademic year of entry.

• MoneMoney Matters 2017/18:y Matters 2017/18: www.edgehill.ac.uk/postgradfinance2017

• MoneMoney Matters 2018/19:y Matters 2018/19: Available Soon

Financial support information for international studentscan be found at www.edgehill.ac.uk/international/fees.

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Apply

How to Apply

Apply online at www.ukpass.ac.uk.

Visit www.edgehill.ac.uk/applyukpass for moreinformation on the application process.

Should you accept an offer of a place to study with us andformally enrol as a student, you will be subject to theprovisions of the regulations, rules, codes, conditions andpolicies which apply to our students. These are availableat www.edgehill.ac.uk/studentterms.

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If you are considering applying to study at Edge HillUniversity, the best way to gain an insight into studentlife is to discover our stunning campus for yourself byattending an open day. You can view dates and book yourplace at www.edgehill.ac.uk/opendays.

Alternatively, if you are unable to attend an open day, youcan find out more about all of our events for prospectivestudents, including monthly campus tours,at www.edgehill.ac.uk/visitus.

Request a Prospectus

If you would like to explore our full range of taughtMasters degrees, Masters by Research degrees and MBAawards before you apply, you can order a postgraduateprospectus at www.edgehill.ac.uk/postgradprospectus.

Get in Touch

If you have any questions about this programme or whatit's like to study at Edge Hill University, please contact:

• Course Enquiries

• Tel: 01695 657000

• Email: study@edgehill.ac.uk

If you would like to talk to the programme leader aboutthe course in more detail, please contact:

• Charlie Whitham

• Tel: 01695 584605

• Email: Charlie.Whitham@edgehill.ac.uk

International students should visit www.edgehill.ac.uk/international or email international@edgehill.ac.uk withany queries about overseas study.

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